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THE THIRD BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>LEVITICUS</span>
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CHAPTER 20
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Death penalty prescribed for sacrificing children to Molech, cursing father and mother, adultery, homosexuality, bestiality, spiritualism, and other abominations—Divers laws and ordinances set forth.
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And</span> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> spake unto Moses, saying,
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Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever <i>he be</i> of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth <i>any</i> of his seed unto <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/20/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Superstitions.">Molech</a>; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
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And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/20/3a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Sacrilege.">defile</a> my sanctuary, and to <sup>b</sup><a href="lev/20/3b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Profanity.">profane</a> my holy name.
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And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/20/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 17: 5 (2-3, 5).">kill</a> him not:
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Then I will set my <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/20/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 21: 10; Jer. 44: 11.">face</a> against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit <sup>b</sup><a href="lev/20/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 3: 9 (8-9); Ezek. 23: 37.">whoredom</a> with Molech, from among their people.
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&#182; And the soul that turneth <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/20/6a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB to magic, or necromancy.">after</a> such as have <sup>b</sup><a href="lev/20/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Spirits, Evil or Unclean.">familiar</a> <sup>c</sup><a href="lev/20/6c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Sorcery.">spirits</a>, and after <sup>d</sup><a href="lev/20/6d" mark="d" type="A" title="2 Ne. 18: 19.">wizards</a>, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will <sup>e</sup><a href="lev/20/6e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG Excommunication.">cut</a> him off from among his people.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/20/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 21: 8; Lev. 22: 32; D&C 88: 74.">Sanctify</a> yourselves therefore, and be ye <sup>b</sup><a href="lev/20/7b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR saints.">holy</a>: for I <i>am</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God.
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And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I <i>am</i> the <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/20/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 19: 3."><span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span></a> which sanctify you.
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&#182; For every one that <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/20/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Curse.">curseth</a> his <sup>b</sup><a href="lev/20/9b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Family, Children, Duties of.">father</a> or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his <sup>c</sup><a href="lev/20/9c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Accountability.">blood</a> <i>shall be</i> upon him.
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&#182; And the man that committeth adultery with <i>another</i> man’s wife, <i>even he</i> that committeth adultery with his <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/20/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 18: 11.">neighbour</a>’s wife, the <sup>b</sup><a href="lev/20/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Adultery; TG Sexual Immorality.">adulterer</a> and the <sup>c</sup><a href="lev/20/10c" mark="c" type="A" title="John 8: 5.">adulteress</a> shall surely be put to <sup>d</sup><a href="lev/20/10d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Capital Punishment.">death</a>.
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And the man that lieth with his <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/20/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 22: 30.">father</a>’s wife hath uncovered his father’s <sup>b</sup><a href="lev/20/11b" mark="b" type="A" title="Lev. 18: 8 (7-8).">nakedness</a>: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood <i>shall be</i> upon them.
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And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/20/12a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR done lewdness.">wrought</a> confusion; their blood <i>shall be</i> upon them.
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If a man <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/20/13a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB lies with a male.">also</a> lie with mankind, as he lieth with a <sup>b</sup><a href="lev/20/13b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Woman.">woman</a>, both of them have committed an <sup>c</sup><a href="lev/20/13c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Homosexuality.">abomination</a>: they shall surely be put to death; their blood <i>shall be</i> upon them.
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And if a man take a wife and her mother, it <i>is</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/20/14a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR lewdness, or an evil device.">wickedness</a>: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.
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And if a man lie with a <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/20/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 27: 21.">beast</a>, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.
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And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood <i>shall be</i> upon them.
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And if a man shall take his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and see her <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/20/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 27: 22.">nakedness</a>, and she see his nakedness; it <i>is</i> a <sup>b</sup><a href="lev/20/17b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR disgrace (Aramaism).">wicked</a> thing; and they shall be <sup>c</sup><a href="lev/20/17c" mark="c" type="D" title="IE publicly excommunicated.">cut</a> off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
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And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
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And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister, nor of thy father’s sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.
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And if a man shall lie with his uncle’s wife, he hath uncovered his uncle’s nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
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And if a man shall take his brother’s wife, it <i>is</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/20/21a" mark="a" type="Q" title="HEB impurity; i.e. repulsive; Lev. 18: 1, 6; Matt. 14: 4 (3-4).">an</a> unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.
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&#182; Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/20/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 17: 38 (37-38).">spue</a> you not out.
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And ye shall not <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/20/23a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Walking in Darkness.">walk</a> in the manners of the <sup>b</sup><a href="lev/20/23b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 7: 1 (1-2).">nation</a>, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
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But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/20/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 38: 18.">milk</a> and honey: I <i>am</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God, which have <sup>b</sup><a href="lev/20/24b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 8: 53.">separated</a> you from <i>other</i> people.
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Ye shall therefore <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/20/25a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB distinguish between.">put</a> difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have <sup>b</sup><a href="lev/20/25b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB distinguished for you as impure.">separated</a> from you as <sup>c</sup><a href="lev/20/25c" mark="c" type="A" title="Acts 10: 15.">unclean</a>.
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And ye shall be <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/20/26a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Peculiar People.">holy</a> unto me: for I the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>am</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="lev/20/26b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Holiness.">holy</a>, and have <sup>c</sup><a href="lev/20/26c" mark="c" type="R" title="HEB distinguished you from the nations; TG Separation.">severed</a> you from <i>other</i> people, that ye should be <sup>d</sup><a href="lev/20/26d" mark="d" type="A" title="3 Ne. 24: 17.">mine</a>.
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&#182; A man also or woman that hath a <sup>a</sup><a href="lev/20/27a" mark="a" type="F" title="This is in Heb, ov, a skin bottle used as an instrument of necromancy; TG Spirits, Evil or Unclean.">familiar</a> spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their <sup>b</sup><a href="lev/20/27b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jacob 1: 19.">blood</a> <i>shall be</i> upon them.
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